Coffey v. Lalanne’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 1984
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on State v. Armbruster · Delaune v. Breaux · Roberson v. Rodriguez · Fields v. Owens · Beach v. Union Brewing Corporation
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) That Lalanne was negligent in (a) not turning out onto the shoulder of the highway sooner than he did, and (b) in delaying unduly to start setting out his flares; (2) That Lalanne's said negligence was a proximate cause of the accident; and (3) That plaintiff was not guilty of independent contributory negligence which was the proximate cause of the accident”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“as it seems to be borne out by a preponderance of the testimony that it was at least five minutes from the time the truck stopped until the accident occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In this case, the testimony does not satisfy us that the driver started as soon as he should have.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.